Development

Turn-based and tactical: where you stand matters as much as what you fire.

• Fight monsters turn by turn: move, aim around line of sight, and duck behind cover
• Join a friend’s fight and take the monsters on together
• Level up your abilities and read every number behind them
• Unique abilities for each class that no other class can copy
• Monsters that cast abilities, flank you and use cover against you
• Rifts: tears that open on the ground and spill the void until someone closes them
• Boss fights built for a full party, with phases and unique abilities
• Player-versus-player fights, out where the empire is not looking

Everything worth carrying is dug up, stripped from a carcass or built by a player.

• Harvest, salvage what monsters leave behind, craft and repair gear across eleven jobs
• Build bootleg beacons that keep a dark place lit, for a while, at a risk
• Power cells and energy containers that feed electronic equipment
• Top-tier equipment that needs the work of several jobs to make
• Rare materials that only appear where a rift has opened
• A workshop of your own, with workbenches you upgrade

You are a Marcher: licensed to hold the line, paid by the contract, loyal to whoever you choose.

• Talk to the people of the frontier, take on their quests and follow the compass to each goal
• Marcher contracts: close rifts, escort salvage, defend and relight beacons
• A story across the launch world, told by the people who live on it
• Factions that remember who you worked for, and who you worked against
• Voiced dialogue
• Achievements: feats to earn and show on your profile, and to get rewards!

A frontier of worlds under a torn sky, lit town by town.

• Walk the launch world, then fly from its spaceport to the sites on the star map
• Every world on the star map filled with its own people, monsters and resources
• Light that matters: lit towns are safe, dimmed ones are not, and the dark is worse
• Void creatures that swarm a beacon and dim it unless someone drives them off
• Hidden places off the marked paths, and what was left in them
• The rim: the frontier proper, where the tears are thickest

Other players are your crew, your customers and your competition.

• Add friends, form a party, whisper and look up other players’ profiles
• Buy and sell resources and equipment on the player-run exchange
• Trade face to face with another player
• A party that shares its loot and its experience
• Corporations: a name, a bank and members who fight under it
• Trade on the exchange from this website
• Corporations that pay to keep a town lit, and decide who it stays lit for